HIDDEN IN THE GRASS: A YEAR IN ATLANTIC CANADA'S EELGRASS ECOSYSTEMS

As a 2023 Trebek Initiative grantee, I will be working in tandem with the Community Eelgrass Restoration Initiative (CERI) and other regional stakeholders to tell the story of eelgrass meadows over the course of four seasons on Canada’s Atlantic Coast, and support CERI as they assess eelgrass' blue carbon potential and carry out restoration studies.

Coastal Access Project - Nova Scotia

The Coastal Access Project is a research-based initiative that will explore how changes to coastal access affects the way people access, live by, and explore the coast. The objective of this project is to foster greater public understanding of coastal access in Nova Scotia, and explore solutions to the challenges that are emerging. The Coastal access project is supported with a grant from the Royal Canadian Geographic Society.

Ocean Conservation - Grenada

I am currently undertaking a multi-season effort in my home country of Grenada to create high-impact visuals of community research-based sea turtle conservation led by the long-standing conservation non-profit, Ocean Spirit. Despite two decades of conservation efforts, Grenada's endangered and critically endangered sea turtles still face critical threats to their populations as well as habitats.

More broadly, I also advise and consult, on an informal basis, on environmental issues in Grenada.

Dive In: The Podcast

Dive In: The Podcast was an weekly all-about-diving podcast. ​A podcast for all divers, it featured interviews with guests from around the world, interesting dive topics, ocean advocacy. The podcast was a show hosted by four dive professionals in Halifax, Nova Scotia that examined issues pertinent to divers and the oceans. Guests on Dive In included talented local underwater photographers, record breaking freedivers, world-renown cave explorers, international film producers, passionate ocean advocates as well as editorial and other leading industry professionals. As a co-founder and co-host of Dive In: The Podcast, I led the production of 80+ of its episodes between 2020 and 2022.